Listed below are some great links to sites of interest to Children's Literature
students, parents, and educators. Check back often, as I will attempt to
keep this list updated and to add new sites as I come across them.
American Library Association: A very comprehensive site that includes links to Web sites for kids and young adults and, of course, lots of information about books. There are also links to the Newbery and Caldecott Web sites, as well as to other sites of interest. This is a very useful resource.
Booklover's Den: Has good pages on both boys' and girls' series books: Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, Goosebumps, Babysitters Club, etc. Includes links to publishers' sites.
Booktalks: A site by Nancy Keane with novel summaries and some useful questions for discussion with students.
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature
Site: Provided by a consulting organization, this site contains many
resources, reviews, and links for educators, parents, and researchers.
The Children's Literature Web
Guide: A good, academic source from the University of Calgary, this
site contains features, references, and dozens of links for teachers, parents,
and storytellers.
Columbia Education Center: A non profit organization based in Portland, Oregon, has another good collection of lesson plans across the curriculum.
The Educators' Reference Desk: I've linked this directly to their language and literature section. While a little bit top heavy with high school lesson plans, there are a number of very useful elementary and middle school materials here as well.
Harper-CollinsPublishers: A website with guides for teachers. Their authors include Sharon Creech, Tracey Porter, Ji Li Jiang, and others.
Houghton Mifflin Education Place: Resources for elementary-school teachers, students, and parents. Includes Reading/Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies Centers, Intervention,Professional Development, searchable activity database,educational games, and textbook support.
Jan Brett's Website: One of many author's sites on the net, this is maintained by the author herself and contains many great resources for teachers and parents-activities, links, downloadable masks,
The Lesson Plans Page: With over 1500 Free Lesson Plans, this is a commercial site, so you'll have to put up with a lot of ads. But it's a fairly easy site to use and is filled with lesson plans across the curriculum. As with other non-refereed sites, though, anyone can post just about anything here, so there's no guarantee of quality.
Lesson Planet: Over 30,000 lesson plans in all areas of the curriculum.
LessonPlanZ.com: Another commercial site, but it has good stuff.
Scholastic: This publisher's site features links for teachers, kids, and parents. The teachers' section includes lesson plans and reproducibles, professional resources, authors, books, and online activities. Though you'll find this a very usefulsite, remember, it is commercial, so you'll be shopping Scholastic titles.
SCORE: Schools of California Online Resources for Education: This site contains lesson plans and contentfor math, science, history/social science, and language arts. A very valuable resource.
Teachers Network: "By teachers, for teachers"; here you will find a teacher store, online courses, and hundreds of lesson plans across the curriculum.
Teachers @ Random: Teacher guides for Random House's authors, including Christopher Paul Curtis, Joan Lowery Nixon, Patricia Reilly Giff, Louis Sachar, and many others.
Teachnet.com: Lesson plans across the curriculum, including some good general language arts plans.
Web English Teacher: While there aren't a lot of detailed guides here, those they do have are excellent, including a very good printable guide to Avi's Crispin, one of our required books for fall 2004.
Yucky!: While not directly related
to children's lit, this science site is a lot of fun for kids in grades
5 up through middle school. All about farts, poops, burps, as well as features
such as "Worms," there are also games, homework help, and "Club
Yucky."
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